I Sette Salmi penitenziali trasportati alla volgar poesia da Dante Alighieri.

8° (186×121 mm). Collation: A-L⁸. 175, [1] pages. Roman and Italic characters. Dante's engraved oval portrait on the title-page. Woodcut tail-pieces. On l. L8v imprimatur dated December 15, 1752. Contemporary half-calf, panel covered in marbled paper, spine with label and gilt title, red adges. A very good copy.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

Italian translation in terzineof the Sette salmiwrongly attributed to Dante, here published with the equally spurious Credo. The volume was edited by the abbot Francesco Saverio Quadrio (1695-1756), who did not put into question the paternity of the two works and states to have taken the text of the Psalms from a manuscript he saw in Brescia, while that of the Credo is derived from the early prints of 1477 and 1478. He also adds that the edition was sponsored by Marquis Don Teodoro Alessandro Trivulzio. The volume ends with a series of Annotations by Quadrio.The first edition was probably printed in Venice around 1475, but the five known incunable editions of the text are all extremely rare and many others may have completely disappeared. The present Quadrio edition was the first after a long period and contributed to spread again the knowledge of the poem.